diff --git a/configs/milvus.yaml b/configs/milvus.yaml
index aef9531684..513f8f0706 100644
--- a/configs/milvus.yaml
+++ b/configs/milvus.yaml
@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ common:
     SearchCacheBudgetGBRatio: 0.1
     LoadNumThreadRatio: 8
     BeamWidthRatio: 4
+  consistencyLevelUsedInDelete: "Bounded"
   gracefulTime: 5000 # milliseconds. it represents the interval (in ms) by which the request arrival time needs to be subtracted in the case of Bounded Consistency.
   gracefulStopTimeout: 1800 # seconds. it will force quit the server if the graceful stop process is not completed during this time.
   storageType: remote # please adjust in embedded Milvus: local, available values are [local, remote, opendal], value minio is deprecated, use remote instead
diff --git a/internal/proxy/task_delete.go b/internal/proxy/task_delete.go
index e8cc06f0d9..6d0a37452b 100644
--- a/internal/proxy/task_delete.go
+++ b/internal/proxy/task_delete.go
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ func (dt *deleteTask) getStreamingQueryAndDelteFunc(stream msgstream.MsgStream,
 				PartitionIDs:       partitionIDs,
 				SerializedExprPlan: serializedPlan,
 				OutputFieldsId:     outputFieldIDs,
-				GuaranteeTimestamp: parseGuaranteeTsFromConsistency(dt.ts, dt.ts, commonpb.ConsistencyLevel_Bounded),
+				GuaranteeTimestamp: parseGuaranteeTsFromConsistency(dt.ts, dt.ts, getConsistencyLevelFromConfig()),
 			},
 			DmlChannels: channelIDs,
 			Scope:       querypb.DataScope_All,
diff --git a/internal/proxy/util.go b/internal/proxy/util.go
index e54f30b0d7..adb6bee1b2 100644
--- a/internal/proxy/util.go
+++ b/internal/proxy/util.go
@@ -768,6 +768,19 @@ func ReplaceID2Name(oldStr string, id int64, name string) string {
 	return strings.ReplaceAll(oldStr, strconv.FormatInt(id, 10), name)
 }
 
+func getConsistencyLevelFromConfig() commonpb.ConsistencyLevel {
+	value := Params.CommonCfg.ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.GetValue()
+	trimed := strings.TrimSpace(value)
+	lowered := strings.ToLower(trimed)
+	for consistencyLevel := range commonpb.ConsistencyLevel_value {
+		if lowered == strings.ToLower(consistencyLevel) {
+			return commonpb.ConsistencyLevel(commonpb.ConsistencyLevel_value[consistencyLevel])
+		}
+	}
+	// not found, use default.
+	return paramtable.DefaultConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete
+}
+
 func parseGuaranteeTsFromConsistency(ts, tMax typeutil.Timestamp, consistency commonpb.ConsistencyLevel) typeutil.Timestamp {
 	switch consistency {
 	case commonpb.ConsistencyLevel_Strong:
diff --git a/internal/proxy/util_test.go b/internal/proxy/util_test.go
index 1bbc147f4d..73e7a13fda 100644
--- a/internal/proxy/util_test.go
+++ b/internal/proxy/util_test.go
@@ -2087,3 +2087,17 @@ func TestSendReplicateMessagePack(t *testing.T) {
 		SendReplicateMessagePack(ctx, mockStream, &milvuspb.DropIndexRequest{})
 	})
 }
+
+func Test_getConsistencyLevelFromConfig(t *testing.T) {
+	paramtable.Init()
+	original := Params.CommonCfg.ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.GetValue()
+	defer func() {
+		Params.CommonCfg.ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.SwapTempValue(original)
+	}()
+	for consistencyLevel := range commonpb.ConsistencyLevel_value {
+		Params.CommonCfg.ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.SwapTempValue(consistencyLevel)
+		assert.Equal(t, commonpb.ConsistencyLevel(commonpb.ConsistencyLevel_value[consistencyLevel]), getConsistencyLevelFromConfig())
+	}
+	Params.CommonCfg.ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.SwapTempValue("invalid")
+	assert.Equal(t, paramtable.DefaultConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete, getConsistencyLevelFromConfig())
+}
diff --git a/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go b/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go
index 824e58d11f..34d988df16 100644
--- a/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go
+++ b/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3/disk"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
 
+	"github.com/milvus-io/milvus-proto/go-api/v2/commonpb"
 	"github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pkg/config"
 	"github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pkg/log"
 	"github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pkg/util/hardware"
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ import (
 const (
 	// DefaultIndexSliceSize defines the default slice size of index file when serializing.
 	DefaultIndexSliceSize                      = 16
+	DefaultConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete        = commonpb.ConsistencyLevel_Bounded
 	DefaultGracefulTime                        = 5000 // ms
 	DefaultGracefulStopTimeout                 = 1800 // s
 	DefaultHighPriorityThreadCoreCoefficient   = 10
@@ -195,6 +197,7 @@ type commonConfig struct {
 	SearchCacheBudgetGBRatio            ParamItem `refreshable:"true"`
 	LoadNumThreadRatio                  ParamItem `refreshable:"true"`
 	BeamWidthRatio                      ParamItem `refreshable:"true"`
+	ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete        ParamItem `refreshable:"true"`
 	GracefulTime                        ParamItem `refreshable:"true"`
 	GracefulStopTimeout                 ParamItem `refreshable:"true"`
 
@@ -465,6 +468,15 @@ This configuration is only used by querynode and indexnode, it selects CPU instr
 	}
 	p.BeamWidthRatio.Init(base.mgr)
 
+	p.ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete = ParamItem{
+		Key:          "common.consistencyLevelUsedInDelete",
+		Version:      "2.0.0",
+		DefaultValue: DefaultConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.String(),
+		Doc:          "Consistency level used in delete by expression",
+		Export:       true,
+	}
+	p.ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.Init(base.mgr)
+
 	p.GracefulTime = ParamItem{
 		Key:          "common.gracefulTime",
 		Version:      "2.0.0",
diff --git a/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param_test.go b/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param_test.go
index 7e4ebae114..bf9e41399a 100644
--- a/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param_test.go
+++ b/pkg/util/paramtable/component_param_test.go
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ func TestComponentParam(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.Equal(t, Params.IndexSliceSize.GetAsInt64(), int64(DefaultIndexSliceSize))
 		t.Logf("knowhere index slice size = %d", Params.IndexSliceSize.GetAsInt64())
 
+		assert.Equal(t, Params.ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.GetValue(), DefaultConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.String())
+		t.Logf("default ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete = %s", Params.ConsistencyLevelUsedInDelete.GetValue())
+
 		assert.Equal(t, Params.GracefulTime.GetAsInt64(), int64(DefaultGracefulTime))
 		t.Logf("default grafeful time = %d", Params.GracefulTime.GetAsInt64())